Texas Rattlesnake<<<
Yes, my friend Mary, always had one or two in the freezer, to serve visitors....not to me, no no no.
But your chickens will eat ones body and if you boil all the meat off the bones, you have a natural tri-bead, the joints even have a hole for using in bead making.
I made and sold necklaces with them, even wore one with a few on it.
Mary did the cooking and gave me cleaned beads/bones.
I was willing to kill them.
When I had my place in the mountains, I killed them almost daily, did you know that the buzzards and wild life will not eat them for 24 hours?
I would cut the head off, and bury it, toss the body in the wash and it would lay there for 24 hours, then the animals and buzzards took it for food.
One night when I came home late, there was a rattlesnake at the gate, so he got shot and I put a large rock over his head, so nothing would accidentally touch the fangs.
The next morning when I went out to cut the head off, LOL, every wild burro for miles around had stopped during the night and left a manure deposit on the snake and rock.
>>>When I had my place in the mountains, I killed them almost daily,<<<
Since we don’t have them here, the first one I killed was in Texas while bird hunting with a good friend. As I was about to put my foot down, I heard something that didn’t sound right... I looked and sure enough, a 5 or 6 foot rattler. I shot it and my friend told me it was a waste of a perfectly good shotgun shell - he then told me that you just needed to take them by the tail and crack them like a whip. (I of course told him that he needed to show me how that worked) Sure enough, about an hour later he called me over and that is how he killed another snake. As for me, I’ll leave that to the East Texas folks... I’ll just reload another shotgun shell!